Ted Nelson

Quotes

• “The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.”
• “[Of the web] It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.”
• “After all, dumbing down Xanadu sure worked well for Tim Berners-Lee!”
• “We should not impose regularity where it does not exist.”
• “I have long been alarmed by people’s sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology’ — it sounds so objective and inexorable — when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages.”
• “You can and must understand computers now!”

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